Home / The Graduate / William Daniels
- Actor
- William Daniels
- Character
- Mr. Braddock
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
William Daniels was barely ten years older than Dustin Hoffman when he played his father in The Graduate (1967). Mike Nichols cast him as Mr. Braddock, and Daniels made the age gap work by leaning into the character's cluelessness — a prosperous attorney who throws his son a graduation party and turns it into a showcase for the neighbors, who gives Benjamin a scuba suit as a gift and thinks that covers fatherly duty. The Braddock house represents everything Benjamin wants to escape: the pool, the parties, the assumption that success means following the same path your parents did.
A gold watch has been spotted on Daniels's wrist in the film, though it isn't visible in this image. For a well-off professional man in 1967, a gold dress watch was practically a uniform requirement. The specific make and model haven't been determined.
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